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pretty much this, my dad religiously watches F1 and keeps up with their schedule even more than football, like waking 4 am to watch the trainings and shit, what horse racing and idols are to us and the nips, F1 is the same for the old men, it's personality driven to the T
and like anon said >>532425209 Verstappen could arguably be called it's special week of this era, though F1 had many heroes greater than him before Verstappen, men like the german Schumacher, the brazilian Senna (which overlaps with japan even as they were saddened by Senna's tragic death in his race, he was popular to the nips even to this day)